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Poster: Monte B Cowboy Date: Dec 12, 2015 12:17pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Blah, Blah, blah...

Okay, maybe I should stick to hockey, football, hoops, and boobs, but politics are all around us all the time, regardless. Jerry wasn't political and neither am I. Jerry spoke truth to power, same as me and what I'm doing. He knew how things worked and he really cared about life on earth. Me too. He took direct action. Same here. I've connected the dots and I'm reporting. The Archive is a public library. I've shared my tapes here. Grateful Dead built me. End of confession.

Guilty as charged! Truth is, politics and Jerry was 'the other way around', Mr. Tell, wasn't it? In 1968 there was a timeless one-minute political TV ad for Richard Nixon. It begins with psychedelic music playing and Richard Nixon is narrating over it, "American youth has its fringers, but that's part of the greatness of our country." Images are flashing by and we have one of Jerry Garcia as Captain Trips being shown. Here's the video: American Youth for Nixon in 1968 on YouTube. SkyDawg noticed this seven years ago.

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Poster: c-freedom Date: Dec 12, 2015 1:11pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re:keep on dancing thru to daylight

Monte
If you think this is the greatest problem facing humanity then you have to follow that but I personally think much of it is "Chicken Little running from a falling sky."
I am all for developing new cleaner fuels but until they are viable you have to go with what you have at hand.
Anyone who has been on Dead Tour did that on fossil fuels, no if's ands or buts about it.
Just find it interesting that nobody can dislodge ISIL from the land they stole but everyone is up for cutting carbon emissions?
Did the right side win the war in Vietnam? You can only practice State directed Christianity now in Vietnam.
Did the right side win the war in Korea? North Korea is a Concentration Camp.
You seem to believe that there is some plot a foot by Conservatives in the U.S. yet when there is an actual plot with mass graves and women sold into sexual slavery nothing but crickets?
These thugs are murdering whole families then keeping the women they want to use as cattle as sex slaves.
For all the issues the left and right have in this country I have never heard of anything like what is going down right now over in the Middle East- Crucifixions, Peoples heads put on poles in the middle of town squares.
You guys want to get on my case -that's fine, rest assured I will pray for you. But the enemy that is coming will not be so kind if you speak against him or his little g-god he blindly follows.
We have already gone into the Middle East twice with huge sums of troops and our military is stretched thin. I have a son who is R.O.T.C in High School if we have to go back into the Middle East again we need to get it right.
Is the environment important. YES but is it more important than the defeat of radical Islam? NO

Chris

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Poster: Monte B Cowboy Date: Dec 12, 2015 3:00pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Re:keep on dancing thru to daylight

If you think Bush's (dubya) illegal war and invasion of Iraq is the greatest problem facing humanity, because now we have to live with those consequences, then you have to follow that: world war 3; but personally, I believe in a non-military, peaceful, politcal solution that is sustainable for everyone.

Chris, my dad was in the ROTC chapter at Harvard. It's one of the first ROTC units in the country. He took photographs during World War II for the U.S. Army Air Corps while he was flying airplanes over northern Africa. My two brothers have served in the US military. My service has been with the Grateful Dead.

It behooves us to know that on May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on peaceful student protesters at Kent State University. They were protesting the Vietnam war and the Selective Service's drafting of our young men. The Ohio guardsmen shot and killed four students, two of whom were not protesters. One of the students killed was William Knox Schroeder. William Schroeder had been walking from one class to the next when he was gunned down. Schroeder was also a member of the campus ROTC chapter. I've been wondering, what the hell did my dad think about that? R.I.P.

During the first week of May, 1970, GD had one very brilliant and shining moment. This was the free benefit concert at the M.I.T. student protest on Kresge Plaza on May 6, 1970. For me, this was by far GD's finest social-justice and musical moment. They began their unscheduled, freebie, peace-based, war-protesting, Grateful Dead show appropriately with Dancin' In The Streets.

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Poster: c-freedom Date: Dec 12, 2015 4:13pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Re:keep on dancing thru to daylight

Well Monte there is one thing we can agree upon in that M.I.T steps was very fine music. The Dancin in the Streets was my favorite ever. Bob Weir captures the entire era with his primal roars.

Vietnam a bad war-Yes
Vietnam after Communist takeover a worse place-Yes
Kent State shootings reprehensible - Yes
behavior of some leftist students reprehensible-Yes

" I believe in a non-military, peaceful, politcal solution that is sustainable for everyone."
That is great Monte and from the relative safety of the U.S. and your own mind you may get some of that but I think the question that the band Anthrax asked is still relevant today
"Peace Sells, but who is buying?"
And as I have already stated I care not for politics of the left and right.
I am a working person who can't afford government health insurance but if I was a Congressman or an illegal alien or in the welfare system it would be provided for me at tax payer expense.
You can keep your politics because in the realm of politics EAGLE ON THE DOLLAR SAYS IN GOD WE TRUST,, I WANT TO SEE THAT DOLLAR FIRST.

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Poster: William Tell Date: Dec 12, 2015 12:54pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Blah, Blah, blah...

I hear ya; no argument from me--you and Frank, eh?

You did it your way...

;)

Where's Rose when we need her?